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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 1-6
Packard Technologies 2002; US$ 9.95This work by Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) gives a history of the decadence of the late empire from the time of the Antonines and the rise of Western Christianity. more...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99With notes by the Rev. H. H. MilmanThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written by English historian Edward Gibbon and published in six volumes. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six printings. Volumes II and III were published in 1781; volumes IV, V, VI in 1788-89. The original volumes were published in quarto... more...
Memoirs of My Life
Penguin Books Ltd 2006; Not AvailableEdward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age. When he died in 1794 he left behind the unfinished drafts of his Memoirs, which were posthumously edited by his friend Lord Sheffield, and remain an astonishing portrait of a rich, full life. Recounting Gibbon's sickly childhood in London, his disappointment... more...
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II
Random House Publishing Group 2000; US$ 26.95"I devoured Gibbon," wrote Winston Churchill. "I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all." Gibbon's magnum opus -- which encompasses thirteen hundred years of history, swinging across Europe, North Africa, and Asia -- remains one of the greatest works of history ever written. "Gibbon is a kind of bridge that connects the... more...
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume III
Random House Publishing Group 2000; US$ 26.95Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [and] was immediately dominated by both the story and the style," recalled Winston Churchill. "I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all....I was not even estranged by his naughty footnotes." In the two centuries since its completion, Gibbon's magnum opus--which encompasses... more...
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged)
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.00Edited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin Illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi Edward Gibbon?s masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century,... more...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Penguin Books Ltd 2000; Not AvailableSpanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL is one of the greatest narratives in European Literature. David Womersley's masterly selection and bridging commentary enables the readerto acquire a general sense of the progress and argument of the whole work and displays the full variety... more...
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I
Random House Publishing Group 2000; US$ 26.95'It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind,' recorded Edward Gibbon with characteristic exactitude. Over a period of some twenty years, the luminous... more...
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 80.85This Modern Library eBook edition collects all six volumes of Edward Gibbon?s towering masterpiece of classical history The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ?complete and unabridged. Edward Gibbon?s magnum opus narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in... more...
The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle
Random House Publishing Group 2012; US$ 71.80Revisit a world of conquest, exploration, and imperial adventure with this Modern Library eBook bundle that includes Edward Gibbon?s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Francis Parkman?s Montcalm and Wolfe , William H. Prescott?s History of the Conquest of Mexico , and Theodore Roosevelt?s The Naval War of 1812 . THE DECLINE AND FALL... more...









